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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Religious writing"”.
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Faith and Scriptural History in Early Modern Religious Writing
… faith and scriptural history in early modern religious writing. While a renewed attention to the historicity of scriptural narratives in this period brought about a more evidence-based assent to the truth of biblical accounts, these developments also led religious writers to emphasise the role …
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Legendary metal smiths and early English literature
… English Literature' is a study of Christian religious influence on the portrayal of a powerful technology, metallurgy, in Old English verse. Starting from the controversy over the supernatural role of metal smiths in a metrical Anglo-Saxon charm, it proceeds to explore the impact of Christian …
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A physiological definition of style: science, religion, and women���s writings in the early American republic
… psychology in an analysis of transatlantic religious writing, speaking, and reading practices in the Atlantic world. Using Methodist women's spiritual journals, copybooks, and correspondence as my primary sources, I argue that the mental experience of persuasion is in fact a bodily one. I …
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Models of Confession: Penitential Writing in Late Medieval England
… deal with sin. Drawing from medieval literature, religious writing and theological sources, this project begins by illustrating the extent to which each of these didactic texts produces a "model of confession" that reaffirms the teachings of the church. However, approaching these texts with …
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Learning to Love
… or edifice. Drawing from medieval literature, religious writing and architectural sources, my dissertation investigates virtue formation and explores what kinds of communities nourish or hinder those virtues. The Christian virtue of love stands at the center of my project. Drawing from the work …